Glove-cutting die.



No. 872,666. PATENTEDDEG. s, 1907.-

J. P. MbLLBR;

GLOVE CUTTING DIE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 27,1906.

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TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHAN P. MOLLER, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GLOVERSVILLE SILK MILLS, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GLOVE-CUTTING DIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHAN P. MoLLER, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Gloversville, county of Fulton, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glove-Cutting Dies, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a face view of my improved glove-cutting die. Fig. 2 is an edge view 01 the same.

In the manufacture of fine 'gloves from leather the process first employed in preparing the leather for cutting is that of stretching the leather so that it has great elasticity transversely, and comparatively little elasticity longitudinally; and in the manufacture'of ladies cloth gloves, and particularly fine silk gloves, a fabric is employed having great elasticity transversely, and comparatively little elasticity longitudinally. Gloves made from such a fabric or leather yield and expand readily transversely when applied to the hand of the wearer, but do not materially change their length, so that it is possible to make such gloves of a definite length corresponding with the dimensions of the hand of the wearer, and to depend upon the'transverse elasticity of the fabric to cause the glove to properly fit the hand.

' The present invention relates to a die adapted for cutting an integral blank containing in itself all of the glove-structure except the fourchettes of the fingers, and more particularly to a die adapted to out such blanks from fabric with all the finger and thumb portions of the blank parallel, so that the lines of fabric in the thumb will correspond, and be parallel, with the lines of fabric in the several fingers.

In a glove made from a blank cut from fabric or leather by such a die laced squarely upon the fabric or leather; tfiat is, with the longitudinal lines of the fingers parallel with the longitudinal lines of thefabric, or leather, it will be found that the longitudinal lines of the f abric or leather extend longitudinally of the thumb as well as of each finger of the glove so that all of the thumb and finger stalls are expansible and elastic to the same degree, as is not the case where the thumb is cut at right angles or obliquely to the fingers.

Referring to the drawings wherein my improved die is shown in its preferred form, 1, represents the base of the die provided along its side edges with stiffening flanges, 2, riveted thereupon.

Mounted upon the base by means of attaching blocks, 3, riveted or otherwise se-' cured thereto, are the knives of the die, of which 44 are the knives adapted to cut the finger portions of the blank, and, 5, is the knife adapted to cut the end and one side of the thumb, the other side of the thumb being cut by the inner end 4* of the knife, 4, which cuts the neighboring edge of the back of the first finger. The side-cutting portions of the knives, 4, 4 and, 5, are all parallel with each other.

The knives, 6 and 7, are adapted to out the wrist and body portions of the blank, their wrist-cutting portions being parallel with each other and lying within the side lines of the finger and thumb ortions of the blank. The inner portion 0 the knife, 6, extends obliquely outwardly to a point on the outer side of the inner end of the thumbknife, 5, and is connected with said thumbknife by a short transverse knife, 8, which extends at right angles to the straight portion of the knife 5. The inner portion of the knife, 7, extends obliquely outwardly to a point beyond the inner end and some distance inside of the knife, 4, which cuts the outer side of the front of the first finger. A short transverse knife, 9, extends obliquely from the inner end of said knife, 4, which cuts the outer side of the front of the first finger, to the oblique portion of the knife,

7, with which it forms a right angle. The inner end 7 of the oblique portion of the knife, 7, extends beyond the transverse knife, 9, a distance approximately equal to the length of the transverse knife 8.

10, is the usual spring-actuated clearing device for discharging the blank from the die.

. The blank cut from such a die is adapted to be folded upon a longitudinal line passing through the middle of the little-finger porgle seam extending across the front of the O" gusset formed by the knife, 9, and inner end 7 of the knife, 7, and then along the lines of said gusset to a seam joining together the outer edges of the front and back of the first finger, in which operation, the edges cut by the knife, 8, and the end 7 of knife, 7 are secured together.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A cutting die for glove-blanks having a continuous cutting edge for the body, entire thumb, and front and backs of the fingers, all of said edges adapted to cut the sides of love from the placket to the base of the the thumb and finger portions being parallel with each other, one body-cutting edge extending obliquely outwardly beyond the outer side-cutting edge for the thumb and being connected therewith by a transverse cutting edge, and the other body-cutting edge extending outwardly to a point beyond and inside of the inner end of the cutting edge for the outer side of the front of the first finger with which it is connected by an oblique cutting edge at right angles to said oblique body-cutting edge.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 24 day of March 19( 6.

JOHAN P. MOLLER. Witnesses:-

IVAN H. WRIGHT, HENRY C. MGLEAN. 

